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EU nations agree COP28 mandate, and on ramping up CO2 targets for trucks and buses
ANALYSIS: Industrial power price provisions lean into EU electricity market reform talks
RGGI Market: RGA stagnation reigns as market outlook remains murky
Increasing wildfires jeopardising efforts to protect Brazilian Amazon, researchers warn
Meeting Paris Agreement goals can yield over $600 trillion in economic benefits, report says
ANALYSIS: Responsibility for Canada’s wildfire emissions depends on who you ask
Could 'marine cloud brightening' reduce coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef?
We landed a camera on Venus before seeing parts of our own oceans – it’s time to ramp up observations closer to home
EU abandons promise to ban toxic chemicals in consumer products
Exclusive: Plan to outlaw all but the most vital of harmful chemicals is not included in leaked policy proposals
The EU has abandoned a promise to ban all but the most vital of toxic chemicals used in everyday consumer products, leaked documents show.
Other legislation to be dropped includes a ban on the export of outlawed chemicals from Europe to the rest of the world, a ban on caged farming and a sustainable food systems framework that the European Commission once described as “a flagship” of its farm to fork strategy.
Continue reading...VCM Report: Standardised carbon credit contracts fall to multi-month lows even as exchange spot volumes tick up
German biotech company to help farmers reduce emissions from rice cultivation in India, Philippines
Floating offshore wind developer calls for innovations that support biodiversity
A cloud: ‘reading the earth with its blind shadow’ | Helen Sullivan
We wake up and look outside, practising cloud divination
Clouds have so much to do with how the day feels, with what the day seems like. Clouds, more than any other weather that touches your skin – the snow, the cold, the rain, the sun, the wind – talk to your insides. As though somewhere in your chest (or is it your head?) vapour is forming, changing shape, dissipating and forming again. It’s why people need water: to feed their interior cumulus.
A cloud below the clear blue of your head, and above your gloomy heart. Thunder and lightning in your mind, and the rest of you soaked through. Something wispy and white happening in your stomach – delight, nervousness.
Continue reading...Delayed environment laws spark calls for urgent government action on water and fracking
Minister Tanya Plibersek should strengthen ‘trigger’ protection to ensure projects are assessed for impact on water resources
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The Greens say the Albanese government has indicated it could be a year before promised environment laws are passed, a delay that potentially pushes the revamp close to the next federal election.
The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, said last year she planned to introduce legislation in 2023 to reform the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act after major reviews found the law was failing and Australian nature was in poor and deteriorating health.
Continue reading...CEFC makes first Rewiring the Nation investment with loan for NSW push beyond coal
CEFC announces first investment in the $19 billion Rewiring the Nation program, a $100 million loan to provide finance for renewable infrastructure projects in NSW.
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